go deep enough into your rabbit holes that normies have no idea what you’re talking about

just had a weird insight rabbit holing in ancient greek writing style. The Apostle Paul's letters are an insight into what an intelectual giant he was. The letters to different places, different city states and cultural paradigms were written in those rhetoric styles, logic frameworks, and cultural paradigms. No where is this more evident than in the comparison between Romans and Ephesians. One being written in a legal structured, point by point "therefore" logic, and the other being writen in Greek Parataxis, "and, and, and, compounding greek logic style. Each letter was written in a culturally relevant way, using cultural references and thinking those cultures would understand. Which adds weight to his statement, "i have become all things to all men, that by all means, i may save some."

kinda fascinated by Greek colonization, and how it’s largely responsible for much of how the world looks now.

til, the majority of southern Italy from 500 to 250bc was Greek. So much so that the original name of Naples was Neapolis.

youve been sold a new paradigm. where the personal computer was meant to be your own library, research, creation center, with a variety of communication protocols available to share information between coomputers. youve been told its a thin client for a corporate controlled internet. side step that trend. stick with the sovereign paradigm. and for your own sake, use, defend, fund, and contribure to Free Software.

its kinda weird that LEDs havent had a larger impact on fashion.

thinking about large scale patterns, sitting by the fire. ChatGPT says, "I think you just put your finger on one of history’s nastiest little rhythms: Founding legitimacy = “we exist to set things right.” Late-stage legitimacy = “we exist to manage ourselves.” And when the gap between those two gets too wide, a rival “of-the-people” legitimacy starts glowing somewhere else—usually on the edges.

the thing about AI i find most interesting is not AI. Its the human marketing trying to convince potential customers it is a superior intellect. And how many scifi bros buy it hook line and sinker.

til,

Magna Graecia - Wikipedia

winning?

i wonder is some family in greenland is wishing you didnt need a massive military budget to be left alone.

wrote a little elisp function which outputs the stdout of a shell script to a dynamic block in an org mode document, then wrote little bash functions which cycle through psalms, proverbs, and John based on the day of the month, or year. the dynamic blocks update when the document is opened, and new chapters appear each day in the foldable headings. thinking of more cool things to output into a self updating daily reading document.

“The future routes around abuse.” “be like water my friend.” — Bruce Lee View quoted note →

someone wrote a State propaganda bot for nostr, to spout mainstream media at us 😂 @FactChecker